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Hinder (May 19, 2011)

With Red , Kopek and Royal Bliss, Vegas Automatic

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After selling millions of albums with Extreme Behavior and Take It To The Limit, touring the world for five years and living large, the rowdy Oklahoma boys in Hinder faced the reality of a subdued life at home. They had a new album to finish and also needed to adjust to a civilian existence after an endless party. It was more of a startling transition than they expected, but it also gave them some time to contemplate their lives and what the future may hold. The result of all that soul searching comes in the form of their latest hard rock gem, All American Nightmare.

The Hinder gang -- Winker, Hanson, bassist Mike Rodden and guitarists Joe Garvey and Mike King -- is facing a time of transition. Now in their late twenties, they are on the cusp of growing up, so to speak, and wondering how that growth spurt will change them. But they haven't gotten all serious and somber. All American Nightmare is still ripe with the bluesy, gritty hard rock that they have made their name on -- in fact, it features some of their heaviest music yet -- from the snarling title track and the incensed "Striptease" to the melodic ballad "Everybody's Wrong" and the flippant closing number "Bad Mother Fucker," a drunken song that sends up male machismo with a satirical razor's edge that will undoubtedly offend many people.

Hinder are determined to maintain the musical integrity and raucous lifestyle of their classic rock predecessors, even if times have changed. "Backstage is not 1987 anymore," laments Winkler. "It's like a fucking library sometimes with some bands. But it can get crazy, if you let it get out of control. We can take it there for sure. The girlfriend of one drummer in a band we toured with told him that if he went out with Hinder she would break up with him. That's one of my favorite stories. It's good to have that kind of reputation. We were backstage at a country singer's show, and we heard this guy over the radio say, ' Hinder is in the dressing room? Get my girlfriend out of there!'" Despite the bravado of that statement, Winkler has been happily married for two years.